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Q&A: How Rural Hospitals can Improve their Cybersecurity Now
A privacy and security expert discusses how small and rural hospitals can move beyond past IT mistakes and implement zero-trust strategies that quickly improve their cybersecurity postures.Small and rural hospitals face big challenges on many fronts, and improving their cybersecurity is of particular concern. Already in precarious financial circumstances for many years, these understaffed and under-resourced facilities face cost pressures that prevent the sort of spending that would keep pace with the threat.Basic cybersecurity hygiene tactics, such as email security, multifactor authentication (MFA) and vulnerability scanning, are beyond some hospitals' means, according to Microsoft's recent whitepaper on rural hospital cybersecurity, released earlier this month.
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The best approach to the zero-trust strategy for healthcare leaders is to start with identity and access management by enforcing MFA for all employees, especially those who have access to electronic health records and administrative systems. For even more data protection, hospitals can have least-privilege access for only staff to access the data and systems necessary for their roles. Another significant step is separating critical hospital systems or segments and securing networks for medical devices and patient records from guest WiFi and administrative networks.
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